I am looking for a Mac OS X application to organize my photos. The default iPhot

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I am looking for a Mac OS X application to organize my photos. The default iPhoto is lacking two major features which I really want/need:

automatically organize the photos by date: I tried to manually create smart albums and filters for each year and month, but this becomes tedious work.
easily and thoroughly delete photos: Delete doesn't work. Right-click and delete doesn't exist. Dragging into the Trash is not an option. Command+Option+Delete deletes the photo for now and it reappears at a later time.

Also, I'd like a free application, or inexpensive at the most. Other features are a bonus.

Explanation / Answer

Try Picasa. It's a free photo-editor by Google.

Picasa can automatically organize photos by date but only within each folder (this may not be what you want).
Pictures can be deleted from the file system from inside Picasa by pressing the Delete key. This shows a confirmation dialog the first time, in which you have the option to choose, "Don't ask again, always remove" for the future.

Other notes: When you permanently edit a picture, Picasa, by default, saves a copy of the original in a newly created 'Originals' folder as a subfolder in your picture's location.

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